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Simple Redirect 404 to Homepage

Redirect 404 error pages to your homepage with configurable options. Improve user experience and SEO with flexible redirect rules.

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Tested up to WordPress 6.8
Current version2.0
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 6.8
Minimum stackWP 5.0 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update16 Nov 202511mo ago
Active installations10Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org ratingNo WordPress.org ratings yet
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Simple Redirect 404 to Homepage version 2.0 as active, updated 11mo ago and tested up to WordPress 6.8.

Overview

About this plugin

Redirect 404 error pages to your homepage with configurable options. Improve user experience and SEO with flexible redirect rules.

The “Simple Redirect 404 to Homepage” plugin helps improve your site’s usability and search engine optimization by redirecting users who encounter 404 errors to your homepage. This ensures visitors remain engaged with your site instead of leaving due to missing pages.

Key Features:

– Automatically redirects all 404 error pages to the homepage

– Multiple redirect types: 301, 302, 303, and 307 status codes

– Exclude specific URL patterns from redirection

– Option to exclude AJAX requests from redirection

– Built-in logging for debugging purposes

– User-friendly settings page

– GDPR compliant with privacy considerations

– Lightweight and optimized for performance

– No configuration needed for basic operation

Privacy Policy

This plugin redirects 404 (page not found) errors to your homepage. It does not collect, store, or process any personal user data. The plugin may log redirect activity for debugging purposes when explicitly enabled in settings, but these logs only contain URL patterns and do not include personally identifiable information.

Any logged data is stored temporarily in server logs only.

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • error pages
  • missing pages
  • 404
  • redirect
  • redirection
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 6.8

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.8.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.8
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.0 · PHP 7.4
Update activity16 Nov 202511mo ago

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